CFP: ECTEL Doctoral Consortium 2006

Call for Papers

ECTEL Doctoral Consortium 2006

Crete, Greece, October 1- 2, 2006



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*** Please forward this call to your Ph.D. Students ***
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---Introduction---

The ECTEL Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together Ph.D. students
working on topics related to professional training. The doctoral consortium
will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive
feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international
atmosphere.

The doctoral consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and
researchers in the field of professional learning. These accompanying professors
will participate actively and contribute to the discussions.

The doctoral consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately
before the ECTEL 2006 conference. The doctoral consortium language is English.

---Topics of Interest---

As for the ECTEL conference, all topics from the field of professional
learning are of interest for the doctoral consortium.
These topics include (but are not limited to):

Collaborative Learning:
Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for
Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge
Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments

Personalized Learning:
Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining,
Information Retrieval, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing,
Remote Monitoring of Users, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions,
Competencies in Workplace Learning

Authoring:
Authoring and Re-Use of Learning Objects, Authoring and Learning Design,
Authoring Tools, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing, Authoring of Multimedia
Learning Content, Authoring for Ubiquitous Learning

Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning:
Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and
Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information
Retrieval

Workplace Learning:
Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost
and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Vocational Education, Informal
Learning, Situated Learning, Social Constructivsm, Social Software,
Organizational Learning, Corporate Training, Institutional change
strategies, Knowledge Sharing, Learning and Competence Development
on-the-job, Workplace-related eLearning

Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning:
Web services, Multi-Agent Systems, Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime
Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous
Learning, Multimedia and Learning, Virtual Reality and Learning, Deployment
Strategies, Design of e-learning environments


---Submission---

Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript
format before June 7, 2006. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages
(single linespace, Times New Roman (or similar) font type, 12 pt font size,
reasonable margins).

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address
specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:

- A clear formulation of the research question.
- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as
the state of existing solutions.
- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far.
- A sketch of the applied research methodology.
- A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better
as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire
Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is
necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor
officially submitted their thesis before the doctoral consortium (October
2, 2006). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their
expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting.

Papers will be reviewed by at leas two members of the doctoral consortium
committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Papers will also be made available electronically to the
participants before the symposium to facilitate preparation of discussions
and questions. Presentations will be kept short (10-15 minutes). A
discussant, a member of the doctoral consortium committee, will be
appointed to each paper. Discussant comments will be followed by a plenary
discussion of the paper. At the end of the consortium there will be a
general discussion, including a brainstorming session about current and
future research topics in the area.

Only electronic submissions are accepted. E-mail your paper as an
attachment in PDF or Postscript format to
dc-ectel06@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de.

A supporting letter should be sent by the PhD supervisor by e-mail to
dc-ectel06@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de.
or by Fax: +49 241 8021513 to Ralf Klamma

Participants should register for the ECTEL conference itself at student rate.

---Consortium Chairs---

* Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

---Program Committee---

* Heidrun Allert, University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
* Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
* Paul de Bra, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Paul Brna, University of Glasgow, UK
* Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Fabrizio Cardinali, Guinti Interactive Labs, Italy
* Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL, Switzerland
* Peter Dolog, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
* Erik Duval, KU Leuven and Ariadne Foundation
* Dieter Euler, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, France
* Jörg M. Haake, FU Hagen, Germany
* Kai Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Friedrich Hesse, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
* Nicola Henze, L3S and University of Hannover
* Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk, USA
* Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Matthias Jarke, Fraunhofer and RWTH Aachen, Germany
* Rob Koper, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria
* Peter Loos, Germany
* Erica Melis, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
* Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
* Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK
* Gustaf Neumann, University of Economics Vienna, Austria
* Roy Pea, SCIL, Stanford, USA
* Juan Quemada, UPM, Madrid, Spain
* Jeremy Roschelle, SRI, Menlo Park, USA
* Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy
* Peter Scott, Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK
* Marcus Specht, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
* Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
* Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
* Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Gerhard Weber, University of Education Freiburg, Germany

---Important Dates---

Deadline for submission: June 7, 2006
Notification to authors: August 1, 2006
Camera ready version: September 1, 2006
Ph.D. Workshop: October 1-2, 2006